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Re:Debian Squeeze Frozen by avar on Friday August 06, 2010 @11:33AM (#1581291)
Sure, I mean that comment in the context of Debian. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD isn't going to be a replacement for FreeBSD any time soon for the people that prefer it.

But it's an excellent alternative for Debian users who'd like to use ZFS and other FreeBSD features without throwing the rest of Debian out with the bathwater.

This'll also be wonderful for the BSD's in terms of increasing the portability of packages in Debian that they might want to pick up.

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Re:Debian Squeeze Frozen by Ixiaus on Friday August 06, 2010 @12:00PM (#1581380)
But it's an excellent alternative...

That's the key reason I think it's a Good Thing; portability for FreeBSD was never a big issue because of Linux Binary Compatibility, though...

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Re:Debian Squeeze Frozen by danieldk on Friday August 06, 2010 @12:04PM (#1581396)
Indeed. And an additional advantage to the FreeBSD may be that it can raise the profile/popularity of FreeBSD. The same would apply to an official port to the OpenSolaris kernel.
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